by: St Mark's Senior Secondary School, Meera Bagh, New Delhi, India
About Rosa Parks
Important Civil Rights Dates
by Shantav Jatav, St. Mark's School
American civil rights activist who was known as ‘’ mother of the freedom movement’’ and ‘’the first lady of civil rights’’.
After her famous act of Defiance and Montgomery Bus Boycott she was considered as an important symbol of modern civil right movement. But this important icon of civil rights had to suffer a lot, as she was an African – American , she had to suffer terrible treatment in city, buses, stores, movie theater and many other problems.
Inspired by the boycott’s success thousands of people were inspired to listen to their new leader Martin Luther King Jr.
Mrs. Parks founded ‘the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute’ for self development. She was given a Congressional gold medal in 1999. But this bright sun never shined after 24 October, 2005. Mrs. Parks died at the age of 92 due to natural causes but she was and will remain alive in everyone’s heart.
1875: Civil Rights Act of 1875
Under Amendment XIV, Congress passes a law that makes racial discrimination in public accommodations illegal.
1883: Civil Rights Act overturned. The Supreme Court declared the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional and that the Fourteenth Amendment forbids States, but not citizens, from discriminating
1896: Plessy v. Ferguson case upheld a Louisiana law railroad cars. Established "separate but equal" doctrine.
1955:May 31: U.S. Supreme Court orders desegregation of the public schools "with all deliberate speed"
August: Rosa Parks meets Martin Luther King
August 28: Emmett Till, age 14, was tortured and lynched in Money, Mississippi
November 25: The Interstate Commerce Commission bans segregation in buses and all waiting rooms involved in interstate travel
December 1: Rosa Parks is arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give her seat on the bus to a white passenger. She is arrested, fingerprinted, jailed by police and fined $14.
December 5: She stands trial and is found guilty of breaking the segregation laws.
December 5: Martin Luther King becomes the president of the Montgomery Improvement Association which was organized due to protest against the incident involving Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott begins which will last 381 days.oad cars. Established "separate but equal" doctrine
Rosa Parks
by: St Mark's Senior Secondary School, Meera Bagh, New Delhi, IndiaAbout Rosa Parks
Important Civil Rights Dates
After her famous act of Defiance and Montgomery Bus Boycott she was considered as an important symbol of modern civil right movement. But this important icon of civil rights had to suffer a lot, as she was an African – American , she had to suffer terrible treatment in city, buses, stores, movie theater and many other problems.
Inspired by the boycott’s success thousands of people were inspired to listen to their new leader Martin Luther King Jr.
Mrs. Parks founded ‘the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute’ for self development. She was given a Congressional gold medal in 1999. But this bright sun never shined after 24 October, 2005. Mrs. Parks died at the age of 92 due to natural causes but she was and will remain alive in everyone’s heart.
Under Amendment XIV, Congress passes a law that makes racial discrimination in public accommodations illegal.